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This document provides 10 practice problems for students to work through in preparation for their Structured Group Tutorial Assessment (SGTA). It includes problems involving determinants, vectors, cross products, lines, and volumes of parallelepipeds. An additional 2 problems are provided for more advanced students. The instructor will discuss problems marked with an asterisk during the SGTA. Students are advised to use Matlab commands like det, cross, dot, and plot3 to verify their results.

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Sgta 5

This document provides 10 practice problems for students to work through in preparation for their Structured Group Tutorial Assessment (SGTA). It includes problems involving determinants, vectors, cross products, lines, and volumes of parallelepipeds. An additional 2 problems are provided for more advanced students. The instructor will discuss problems marked with an asterisk during the SGTA. Students are advised to use Matlab commands like det, cross, dot, and plot3 to verify their results.

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MATH1010/6904 SGTA Week 05 Numeracy Centre

1 SGTA problems
This section contains problems that you should attempt at home in preparation for your SGTA.
Your instructor will work through with you those questions labelled with an ∗ during the SGTA.
1. Continue to work through the Matlab manual (available on iLearn). This is a weekly
task and students should aim to complete the relevant topics in-line with the lecture
material.
This week you need to be able to use the techniques discussed in §1.5, §1.6 (pp. 14–16).
∗ 2. Evaluate the following determinants.
4 4
(a) A=
3 2
5 2 −1
(b) B = −3 4 −6
1 7 2
a−2 3 2
(c) C= 0 a −1 for a ∈ R.
0 4 a−4
Verify your results in Matlab using the det command. Note: you may find it useful to
use the commands syms and simplify in part (c).
∗ 3. Each of the following equations illustrates a property of determinants. State the property.
0 5 −2 1 −3 6
(a) 1 −3 6 = − 0 5 −2
4 −1 8 4 −1 8
2 −6 4 1 −3 2
(b) 3 5 −2 = 2 3 5 −2 .
1 6 3 1 6 3
4. (a) Find the cross product a × b and verify that it is orthogonal to both a and b for the
following:
(i) a = (4, 3, −2), b = (2, −1, 1);
(ii) a = 3 i + 3 j − 3 k, b = 3 i − 3 j + 3 k .
Verify your results in Matlab using the commands cross and dot.
(b) Show that b · (a × b) = 0 for all vectors a and b in R3 .
5. Find the area of the parallelogram with adjacent edges u and v, where u = (3, −3, 1)
and v = (4, 9, 2).
6. Find the parametric, vector and symmetric (Cartesian) equations for the line through the
points (8, 5, −1) and (5, 4, 6).
   
1 0 a b
7. Let A = and B = . Show that det(A + B) = det A + det B if and only if
0 1 c d
a + d = 0.
∗ 8. Find the cross product a × b and check that it is orthogonal to both a = (t, 1, 1/t)
and b = (t2 , t2 , 1).
Verify your results in Matlab using the commands cross and dot.
Note 1: specify t using the syms command by setting
syms t;
t = sym(’t’, ’real’);
The last statement ensures that the variable t is real only. Type help sym in the command
window for further information.
Note 2: It may be necessary to call upon the simplify command to simplify your answer.

∗ 9. Find the volume of the parallelepiped with adjacent edges P Q, P R, and P S, with P =
(3, 0, 1), Q = (−1, 2, 5), R = (5, 1, −1), and S = (0, 4, 2).
Verify your result in Matlab using the commands cross and dot.

∗ 10. Find the parametric and symmetric (Cartesian) equations for the line through the points
(8, 3, −1) and (5, 4, 6).
Plot the line in Matlab, using the parametric equations of the line for t ∈ [−5, 5]. Type
help plot3 in the command window for information on plotting lines in three-dimensions.
2 Additional problems
These are problems that students who would like something a little more challenging can try
at home after the SGTA. Your instructor may discuss some of these problems in the SGTA if
time permits.

a b c
1. Given that d e f = 2, find
g h i

d e f
(a) g h i
a b c
d e f
(b) 3a 3b 3c
g h i
4a 4d 4g
(c) 4b 4e 4h .
4c 4f 4i

2. Find all the vectors v such that (1, 2, 1) × v = (3, 1, −5).

3. (Use Matlab)

(a) Calculate the determinants of the following matrices (refer to pg. 15 of the manual).
 
  −5 6 7
2 −3
A= , B =  0 −1 2 , C = pascal(4), D = hilb(8).
−6 9
4 0 −3
(Don’t know what pascal or hilb do? Enter help followed by the name of any
Matlab command or function for more information!)
 
1 4
(b) Let E = . Compute det(eye(2)-E).
2 −1
(c) Find an integer value of t such that det(t I − E) = 0. Note: you may find the solve
command useful.
(d) Choose an arbitrary real number s. In the command window, enter the matrix
 
cos s sin s
F = ,
− sin s cos s

and calculate its determinant. Does the value of the determinant depend on s? Why
do you think this is?

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